Re: long time between typed username and password and next window showing up

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From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 22:19:53 -0500

When your computer is connected to a network, booting up Windows XP can take
a long time.

A big part of this time is taking up by updating the group policies.

This tweak lets you log on before this process is finished. Because of this,
booting up is much faster.

Speedup Network Logon/Boot (Line 79)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm 

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All the Best,
Kelly
Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
Troubleshooting Windows XP
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"CMKenyon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:1E02FBF0-6F7F-4F1C-9276-0024ACE59382@microsoft.com...
> Are you logging into the domain every time?
>
> If so that could be the reason for the delay. Try logging in localy and 
> see if it speeds up the log in process any.
>
> Some other things would be to temporarily turn off startup programs via 
> the MSConfig. Type "msconfig" at the run command and select "selective 
> startup" and then turn of "load startup items". This should only be used 
> as a temporary test to see if it helps.

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